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| This episode has confirmed that this is definitely my favorite of the season thus far, just edging Hibike S2, Yeah its very trippy, but the characters are sweet and adorable and the story is interesting! |
| Interesting ending. Getting some serious Trigger vibes off the FlipFlap organization (especially Salt). This could go in any number of directions. |
| Guys, I can't be the one who is slightly disturbed by the ending song right? Especially when cocona freak out while papika is laughing out loud on the ground... |
| Papika learned a valuable lesson ohh kokona friend saw it???Liberate Pure Illusion ong |
Thai777 said: Guys, I can't be the one who is slightly disturbed by the ending song right? Especially when cocona freak out while papika is laughing out loud on the ground... I always thought that was just...kinda funny. XD Seems to go with their personalities; Cocona is the one to scream but Papika just laughs....XD Papika seems honest to God FEARLESS....does she worry about anything at all? lol |
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| I'm calling it now. "Flip Flappers" is AOTS. And I'm watching 15 shows this cour alone...probably will have watched 45+ for 2016. Aside from "Flying Witch" this could be AOTY. I watched episode 1 three times and still found wonderful details. I have a feeling I'll be doing the same thing for this episode and for all of those to come. |
| This show is simply amazing. I love how unique and fun it is. Direction actually reminds me of Ikuhara stuff. With all the yuri in this he's obviously an inspiration. |
these are great! this particular screen cracked me up *thumbs up* |
| I really love this anime |
| This series is very similar to: Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita(Humanity Has Declined) |
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| this show is getting even more insane and this episode was quite trippy. next week seems to be action focused with characters looking like there out of mad max |
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| As fun and pretty as the first one. It looks like they aredoing a villain's job. 5/5 Waiting to learn who the classmate really is (since she clearly appears as a similar "magical girl" in the opening) @Fai @Kougeru @Paul @Dimentioluc Would you care to elaborate on this (homo)sexual content, please? (curious but blind) |
| I love this series, amazing art and fluid animation. Now a bunny from JOJO. Wharever, studio 3hz is half american, right? |
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| Man, it sure is a shame that all this really pretty concept art doesn't have a coherent plot to tie it together |
| Wow, still great. i'm really digging this Anime. <3 |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Man, it sure is a shame that all this really pretty concept art doesn't have a coherent plot to tie it together A world and a parallel reality with fragments of a magical object that an organization wants to complete in order for their goals to become true. That sounds like coherent plot to me. Rei366 said: @Fai @Kougeru @Paul @Dimentioluc Would you care to elaborate on this (homo)sexual content, please? (curious but blind) Some of the most obvious examples(but not the only ones) Alongside the more unique ikuhara-esque stuff as above, we also have traditional class-s shoujo-ai tropes like Two girls hiding together behind bed curtains and so on |
AhenshihaelOct 14, 2016 3:38 AM
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| @Fai Thank you. I must be very obtuse to those things because for most of them I was simply seeing Papika as the foreigner destroying the usual "distanced respect" Japanese people are supposed to develop before they reach adulthood. And for others, that you have to reject fantasy/childhood to grow up (yes, I am very unimaginative as well) What is "double entendre"? (I only know this word as the french verb, to hear) |
| OP is ZAQ! Her OPs are almost always nice, this one is good too. Also, it reminds me of a vocaloid song called "Maigo Life" Cocona got the tsundere right. When Papika came in the class, I thought she was the homeroom teacher of the class. But nah it was Papika, and as a transfer student. GG. Yayaka is giving yuri vibes too. Man this anime is far more erotic than the actualy ecchi ones. Dem bunny teeth. I see so their powers activate when the other one is in danger. Real cool. That lava scene was great, whoever is directing this has my respect. And I swear I adore the ED song! And I adore this show as well, can't wait to see how it shapes up. There's nothing quite like it. |
TragicRomanceOct 14, 2016 6:47 AM
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HOLY SHIT did anybody notice this in the OP? Literally comes up just seconds before the KKK trio scene, where it shows an army of robo soldiers. There's a little blue haired girl hidden in that shot. |
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| Cocona doesn't want anything to do Papika but that girl keeps trying to push herself onto Cocona and tries to force her to go on adventures with her inside Pure Illusion. She even dresses up and comes in like a transfer student to be close to Cocona. Cocona doesn't want to go into Pure Illusion again because it's dangerous and there are chances that they might die. Cocona felt that in the last episode and doesn't want to feel that again. But because of Cocona's weird rabbit like whatever thingy getting sucked by some weird vacuum cleaner, she also finds herself in a pretty damn colorful world with Papika and with rabbit ears and a tail. And Cocona gets trapped and this time it's Papika who goes through what Cocona went through in the previous episode. Papika becomes somewhat and saves Cocona. And Cocona is now willing to occasionally go into Pure Illusion for some more fun adventures. Salt and his underlings are introduced here as members or people in FlipFlap who want to make liberate Pure Illusion by collecting those fragments. And liberating Pure Illusion probably means making that weird fantasy like world a reality or n merging this real world with that's world. Or whatever which makes that world accessible to everyone. They're starting to explain some stuff here. They tell the reason behind collecting the fragments at least. Although they don't tell who was kidnapping Cocona last week. The colorful world looked cool. I liked those colors. The animation was also pretty neat I guess. And this was more funny than the previous episode. Going good enough so far I guess. |
| Awesome. Maybe not my favorite of this season, but it's still awesome. Definitely the best looking series of this season. |
| WOW! Those sceneries and color schemes were just amazing. |
| The adventures in this show sure are mind-blowing, lol. They are an enjoyable watch. Do I sense some yuri? |
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| What a nice way to start the morning. Papika seems to be enjoying herself a lot, though Cocona is gonna have a pretty hard time dealing with her. This anime just got a lot weirder, so I expect it to get weirder later on as well as more dangerous, but I look forward to the nonsense. Also wow, freaking Uexkull is the manliest and edgiest looking rabbit thing I have ever seen. Music when Papika saved the day is nice, believe it played in the first episode as well, it's a good theme, and I look forward to hearing it more. This anime has strange cliffhangers too. |
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Ajunky said: Chiibi said: I always thought that was just...kinda funny. XD Seems to go with their personalities; Cocona is the one to scream but Papika just laughs....XD Papika seems honest to God FEARLESS....does she worry about anything at all? lol I also think there is something disturbing about Papika. From what I understood, all her previous partner candidates died on the first "diving" attempt, and she couldn't care in the slightest. Of course, it could be that she simply didn't understand about death, just like she doesn't understand about many things. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out she was made/cloned by flip flappers for the sake of Salt's grandiose purpose. You may be onto something there. Papika is definitely not a normal little girl. I was thinking she could be an alien being but if she is a clone or artificial human, that makes even MORE sense. lol Do I sense some yuri? I don't sense any here. Papika is just weird. lol |
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| I think I've found my new anime to watch while tripping balls. |
| This second episode had a similar problem to the first episode in terms of the story. I don't know what the fuck happened with the after credits scene. I don't know how Cocona accepted Papika's existence like she had known her for a whole week. That being said though, there's a lot of shit to love about this show, so it's still one of the better ones of the season. |
| every single one of my forum posts is dumb and invalid except for 1, I don't claim them it was a different person it was all fake |
| damn that Euxskull.. so bad-ass look lol |
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| I hate Papika so much. I think it's no coincidence that the parallel universe travel happened at the thinker statue. I believe we went to the subconscious of Uexkull. The entire part at school had a lot to do with Uexkull and why wouldn't they turn into bunnies in a bunny like creatures conscious. I don't have a clue whose subconscious we went to last episode was. Truthfully me liking this series will have a lot to do with how much I can tolerate Papika. Poor Cocona. |
| So we went from Cocona being kidnapped unconscious to her waking up in bed. No one but Papika seems to know anything was up. The fragment that Cocona dropped when kidnapped is now safe, despite Papika being caught up in a net trap at the time, Papika is then covered in scratches and a ripped outfit the next day, and apparently, Cocona's left arm was bothering her. There's no way all this disconnect was unintentional, but I can only guess at what it might be foreshadowing (the wacky nature of this show and its settings doesn't make things any easier). And of course, there's Doctor Salt, the facility Papika escaped from early on, the other people at FlipFlap, the unknown nature of the fragments and what Pure Illusion really is, all these actions with unknown motives... this show has a ton of elements to work with, and they definitely don't seem to be random. |
| It's hard for me to love this show because the pacing is bizarre and a lot of it seems very random, but it's definitely entertaining and the yuri subtext is pretty cute. I'm getting some vibes that things could potentially get dark as well, so I'll be keeping up with this to see where it goes... |
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| This show is such a unique experience. It's like a crazy trippy combo of Kaiba, Space Dandy, an adventure anime, magical girls-ish + studio Trigger/Gainax vibes. I really hope this will have a happy ending, it seems it might turn dark on us. The rabbit is super cute. Edit: Just looked at the director again, he's worked on Space Dandy, Dennou Coil, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Bounen no Xamdou and many others. |
alpha_shadowOct 16, 2016 2:05 AM
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| LSD: the anime And I'm fuckn loving it |
| i swear this could pass off as a trigger/gainax show. enjoying the cute acid trip though |
| Liberate Pure Illusion!? sound like Chuuni syndrome to me... 4/5. |
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| This anime makes *no sense whatsoever* but I already love it. I think this might be my top pick for the season. |
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Mascera said: Definitely.holyfox6894 said: Totally agree with that. And that moment when Cocona read the book... Omg Papika cleaned up is really cute, and the pigtails are great. That Dracula-Hulk-like Uexkull is awesome too. LOL This show is probably the most intriguing thing i've seen in a long time. It's so far beyond anything i'd normally be into, with the allusions to Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz (especially this episode) and so on... This is an extremely unique series, and it puts you in that squirmy position, where even if you can make sense of what going on it drives you nuts that you can make sense of such insanity. I can't stop watching it. Though, there are definitely many hints to a very dark presence behind it all, despite the ridiculous classical cartoon sugarcoating. I find it unusual that people are talking about yuri suggestiveness, especially being such a yuri fanatic myself, i didn't jump to such presumptuous conclusions, however if it is the case, that's neat. As far as pseudo-sexualized suggestive scenes, that's normal for japan, and it doesn't necessarily infer anything relating to sexual activities themselves. |
GenesisAriaOct 16, 2016 11:13 PM
❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. 🔗CosmoGenesis Project “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” “A truth seeker has no patience for BS.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| This anime is so much fun and I wish it were out already so that I could watch it more quickly. But anyway, this episode felt a little more "grounded" in that I knew a little of what to expect, although that doesn't mean it was any less fantastical. The first thing to question is whether or not the creators intended to put all of these symbols and subtext that people are already searching for. I don't think that matters quite as much as whether people are interpreting symbolism in a work, so with that in mind, let's see if I can contribute to the conversation which is already growing in the threads. What of those men who came to abduct Papika in ep 1? The easiest answer I came up with is that Cocona was chloroformed and left at her house, but then what happened to Papika? I don't know. However, after watching the OP a couple dozen times because of how much I love it, I noticed that the robots which showed up look similar to a crowd that appears in the OP for about 2 seconds at the 1:08 mark and if you freeze it right, you can see a short green haired girl standing among them, who seems to resemble a girl seen elsewhere in the OP. What this means to me is that it happened. The show may have ignored the encounter, but at some point, Papika and Cocona dealt with a bunch of robots who wanted something from them, possibly the shard. You know what's really stuck with me? Cocona in the OP. She's seen lying on her bed, in the dark, while it's raining, looking kind of unhappy, not really sad or angry, just kind of bored and discontent. I may be interpreting based on how I currently feel, but Cocona looks like she's really not satisfied with her life. She goes to school, talks to maybe 1 or 2 friends, lives with her grandmother. How exciting. Along comes Papika, who's excited, outgoing, has no sense of personal space or restraint, and takes her to a place that's fantastical and right out someone's imagination. Maybe this is exactly what Cocona wants, but it's new and strange and she's not comfortable with going new places even if she's unsatisfied with her current state. In the first episode, Cocona lost her glasses and when Papika retrieved them, they were broken. Papika was unable to see her current situation, and Papika broke her perception of the world. In the second episode, they traveled into what looks like some kind of story book, and boy was it some strange story. I've seen some users interpret Cocona's unwillingness to bite as an expression of sexual repression but I think it could just as easily be an unwillingness to accept anything unusual. This series certainly does bear some similarities to Ikuhara works; the man at the end of the episode who wants to "liberate Pure Illusion" reminded me of other repeated phrases, like everyone who wanted to "revolutionize the world" in revolutionary girl utena, or find their promised kiss in Yuri Kuma Arashii, or something about destiny in Mawaru Penguindrum. Who is he and what does he want? Papika seems to "work" for him but he looks like the kind of character who'll abandon anyone he associates with in order to achieve his goals. So what is Pure Illusion? What of these shards that the girls are finding? It seems to me like Dr. Salt is trying to do so because not just anyone can enter Pure Illusion (I mean, they did tell is that Papika could only enter with Cocona). So why can they enter? I'm pretty certain that Papika and all the other people she associates with are real. The last shot was of a bunch of eyes opening and seeing the box which I thought the girls were in completely empty. I have no idea what to make of that. Why a vacuum? That's what I was trying to figure out. I will note though, that Uexkull is really weird. It looks like a rabbit, but it's green? Also, the scene where he and Cocona were being carried toward the lava reminded me of the child broiler from penguindrum. I really want to see more episodes, because this is such a fun show, even if I don't completely understand what's going on. |
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| LOL what people like about it ?! The comments here make it sound like I'm not even watching the same a anime ! |
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